Personal Narrative: The Foster Care System

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Only a few months after I was born, I was put in the foster care system. After a year, my paternal grandparents took guardianship of me and later adopted me. I’ve known this story since I was a little girl. My parents, the ones who raised me, never tried to hide it from me. I bet you're expecting me to say that dealing with the weight of my drug-addicted parents has been my most significant challenge. You're right, but not in the way you might think. It would have been so much easier if I had grown up surrounded by kids going through the same thing. But I grew up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood. The majority of my peers don't know what it's like to have their siblings pulled away from them. They've never had to deal with their biological